The resolution against Kumar was passed unanimously.
Nineteen opposition parties enacted an unprecedented public impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for “overseeing and participating in a devious and malevolent criminal conspiracy orchestrated by the BJP” to steal elections while holding him responsible for “a manipulated, truncated and destructive special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls” and demanded his immediate removal and a trial for treason in a court of law.
“We hold no personal animosity toward the CEC; our objective is to ensure that the Election Commission functions impartially, in alignment with the spirit of the Constitution, and retains the trust of the common citizen. “The drama that the Congress party is currently staging, this ‘mock parliament’, is, in effect, making a mockery of the Parliament itself. He asserted that Mr. Kumar should not only be removed from office but also tried in a court of law for treason.
The 3.5-hour-long show, attended by more than 250 opposition lawmakers, was held at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence at Rajaji Marg after 4 PM. At 7.05, the resolution to remove Kumar was adopted unanimously. Earlier reporting noted: They levelled six charges against him, including conspiring with the ruling BJP to steal elections, deleting 13.2 crore voters through the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter lists, and acting at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
Several speakers lambasted Kumar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others the over SIR, alleged mass disenfranchisement and the “amending” Form 6 without Parliament’s knowledge. We must prevent the voting rights of marginalised sections, women, and the youth from being surreptitiously deleted via a computer by someone sitting in Delhi,” he said. Let all your speakers and participants there hear this: the very first instance of vote-stealing was committed by Nehru himself,” the BJP leader told ANI. Earlier reporting noted: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi described the exercise as a “political weapon” aimed at all those who had “colluded” to destroy the votes of the Indian people. Earlier reporting noted: The Opposition was compelled to hold a public impeachment because “every other institution and institutional direction” was closed to it, Mr. Gandhi said in his concluding remarks, warning that those involved in alleged electoral irregularities “would not escape accountability and would eventually have to face the representatives of the people”.
Today or tomorrow, you will face the representatives of people of India. This is a political weapon that is going to give justice to the youth of India and people. This is our sacred duty for the Constitution. You can’t always hide behind the institution. “Now, they have resorted to ‘Vote Chori’ (theft of votes)—stripping away the votes of the opposition to consolidate their rule.
Lok Sabha’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi summed up the exercise and said, “This is not some talks taking place in a garden. Calling the Opposition’s show as “an extremely dangerous political weapon that is targeted to Modi, Shah and others who colluded” Gandhi said, “What these people are saying is that you (Kumar) are hiding behind the institution you had to protect. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who opened the debate, said, the motion aims to safeguard the dignity of a constitutional institution. There are hundreds of instances of such ‘Vote Chori’,” Kharge said.
